rename user via PAM module?

[Wolfgang Draxinger]

On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 18:49:03 +0200
Riccardo Murri <riccardo.murri at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Is there a PAM module to remap the username according to some simple
> configuration file?  I'm thinking of reading a simple plaintext file:
>
> (...)

Yes such changes are possible. In fact I recently (last week) wrote a
PAM module of similar pupose (also announced it here on the list):

| Hello PAM maintainers,
| 
| I'd wanted to let you know of a new PAM module out there, that I've
| written today. The source can be found at
| 
| https://github.com/datenwolf/pam_propperpwnam
| 
| (...)

This works flawlessly with OpenSSH sshd, so I cannot confirm the
concerns Tomas Mraz, though if someone could show me a counter example
I'd be glad.


Wolfgang